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WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZE The story of medicine in India is rich and complex: uniting cutting-edge technological develo……続きを見る

Why do red placebos stimulate whereas blue placebos calm? Why do more placebos work better than few? And why do more expensive placebos work better than cheaper ones? These are some of the key quest……続きを見る

Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal! The basic facts about multiple sclerosis are well known: it is the most common neurologic disease of y……続きを見る

The human body is thought of conventionally as a biological entity, with its longevity, morbidity, size and even appearance determined by genetic factors immune to the influence of society or cultur……続きを見る

A look at eye surgery in New Zealand and its many, often colourful, practitioners. This book throws new light on eye surgery from our colonial days to the present. Some early surgeons were itinerant……続きを見る

A lively, moving novel that vividly recreates the 1880s: the harsh lives; the attitudes to madness and to drunkenness; and the strength of friendship and love. After an accident at four years old, L……続きを見る

Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, scienc……続きを見る

The nineteenth century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. Crucial Interventions follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing from the very best exampl……続きを見る

The American Disease is a classic study of the development of drug laws in the United States. Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance……続きを見る

The story of Tufts Medical Center and the Floating Hospital for Children encompasses the history of medicine in Boston. It was founded in 1796 as the Boston Dispensary, where district physicians pro……続きを見る

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of co……続きを見る

Originally published in 1926, as part of the Psyche Miniatures Medical Series, this title is based on two lectures given to the North-East London Clinical Society and the North-East London Post Grad……続きを見る

Originally published together in 1970, this study collects two essays on the housing situation of London in the nineteenth century. Homes of the London Poor was first published in 1875 and written b……続きを見る

Originally published in 1987, the introduction states: "the authors have successfully accomplished their program – to explain, based on physical representations, the observed relations among various……続きを見る

Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South ……続きを見る

This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health,……続きを見る

Originally published in 1975, this title sets out to show us the differences between Soviet and other ways of thinking about nature, man, and society. The basic factor distinguishing Soviet psycholo……続きを見る

Originally published in 1923, this book had enjoyed constant and wide success, being reprinted fourteen times. In this new and thoroughly revised edition, published in 1964, the author has reconside……続きを見る

Originally published in 1928, this volume, by a world authority on the subject, sums up our knowledge of the social insects. It inquires what are the social insects and what it is that makes us call……続きを見る

First published in 1989. The purpose of this book has been to present the basic principles of Adler's psychology in a form easily understood by students of psychology as well as a wider population i……続きを見る

Psychology has an important part to play in the teaching and practice of physical education and sport, and this volume, originally published in 1972, provided a systematic and authoritative introduc……続きを見る

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East ……続きを見る

Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology describes the unique relationship between early schools of thought in Greek philosophy, modern psychology, and most recently evolutionary psychol……続きを見る

„Zukunft braucht Herkunft“ ist ein Motto, das auf die Plastische und Ästhetische Chirurgie ganz besonders gut zutrifft. Die Möglichkeiten des Fachgebiets nehmen rasant zu und stehen wie nie im Licht……続きを見る

Du suchst eine kompakte Zusammenfassung der zentralen Grundlagenfächer der Psychologie – weil Du den Stoff wiederholen möchtest oder weil die Zeit vor der Prüfung nicht mehr für ein dickeres Buch re……続きを見る

Das Lehrbuch beschäftigt sich mit Grundfragen der Erkenntnistheorie, der Logik und der Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Psychologie. Heiko Hecht, Professor für Allgemeine Psychologie an der Johanne……続きを見る

The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds explores how environment was thought to shape ethnicity and identity, discussing developments in early nat……続きを見る

Mehr als 300 Kurzbiographien mit Werkbezug geben über 80 Jahre nach der Machtübernahme durch die Nationalsozialisten Aufschluss über Psychologinnen und Psychologen, die von dem damaligen politischen……続きを見る

Is there a gene for autism? Despite a billion-dollar, twenty-year effort to find outーand the more elusive the answer, the greater the search seems to becomeーno single autism gene has been identifi……続きを見る

Wie hat sich über die Jahrhunderte hinweg das Verhältnis der Medizin zum Tod und zum Sterben verändert? Daniel Schäfer zeichnet die spannende Geschichte einer langen Annäherung nach. Sein Buch ist i……続きを見る